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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Yahoo! User Interface Library

The Yahoo! Developer Network has just released a complete open-source User Interface Library.

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

Perhaps even more interesting, are a growing set of Design Patterns that include:

There's a ton more information available on the YDN Web site. For additional feedback, RSS feeds, articles and announcements, visit the Yahoo! User Interface Blog.

tags: ajax, api, behavior, browser, css, developer, dom, javascript, license, module, open-source, patterns, programming, user-interface, yahoo

Posted by Douglas Clifton in Programming, JavaScript at 18:58 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (2)

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The more I go over this material, the more impressed I am with it. Also worth mentioning is the YDN Graded Browser Support policy.

#1 Doug (Link) on 2006-02-15 02:01

And speaking of GBS, Molly has a nice post over at WaSP, check out Yahoo! Developers: Setting a Standard for the New Professionalism.

#2 Doug (Link) on 2006-02-17 17:56

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